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17 October 2022

Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler The demarcation line between IT and stationery is not electricity, but the line between dumb and nasty clearly starts at staplers

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Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants

Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions

Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised AD tweaks

Partners may be dragging the chain a little – perhaps you'd like to hurry them up?

2022 Cloud Security Report Whitepaper

Automate Network Management for the Fortinet Security Fabric Whitepaper

On-Prem

Nvidia admits mistake, 'unlaunches' 12GB RTX 4080

The cheapest 40-series card now starts at [checks notes] $1,199

12 Comments

Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover

A contract is a contract, says Brit CPU designer

16 Comments

Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC

New-fangled cloud storage now an option. What's that internet app the kids are all using again? Whatsupp?

12 Comments

Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner

But it's OK because we use non-carbon energy, argues CEO

19 Comments

Junk cellphones on Earth would stack higher than the International Space Station

Happy International E-waste Day!

24 Comments

NIST thinks US public should weigh in on CHIPS Act programs

What should R&D focus on, and how should we structure grants so they're not just a swap for private sector cash?

5 Comments

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Meta's push to put computing into a headset will end in tears

80 Comments

Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler

The demarcation line between IT and stationery is not electricity, but the line between dumb and nasty clearly starts at staplers

202 Comments

Securing the Application Journey Whitepaper

Post-Covid-19: Digital Transformation and OT Cyber Security in Asia Whitepaper

Security

Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research

Samsung and TSMC hit with chip tech patent suit; Ant Group's DB hits AWS; PayPal drops Hong Kong rights group; and more

Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

Women who do join get paid and promoted less, leave faster. What can be done to stop that?

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'Baby Al Capone' to pay $22m to SIM-swap crypto-heist victim

Too young to drive, old enough to bribe AT&T staff, apparently

11 Comments

FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher

Redmond says OME isn't supposed to be used for security, just for something else

7 Comments

Store credit card numbers in a debug log, lose millions of accounts. Cost? $1.9m

That's roughly 300,000 Shein crop tops

4 Comments

LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites

Managed software provider Advanced admits some customer data 'exfiltrated' in August ransomware attack

1 Comments

India set to extend deadline for absurd infosec reporting requirements

60 days becomes five months and counting, without any indication government can process or learn from flood of trivial incident reports

3 Comments

Cyberthreats Racing Ahead of Your Defenses?

Security-Driven Networking Can Put a Stop to That

Software

Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art

Plus: Listen to Fake Joe Rogan interviewing Bogus Steve Jobs in bizarre podcast episode

19 Comments

Would you pay $10 to create an AI chatbot to talk again to a dead loved one?

How software can help some grieve, perturb others

35 Comments

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out

10 Comments

Linux kernel 6.1 will contain fixes, features. Useful Rust modules? Not yet

But you get a super practical patch that prints CPU, core, and socket when you get a segfault

5 Comments

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

But, it won't play out the way you think it will

126 Comments

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

'Customers will not – at least not in the short term – move exclusively to cloud scenarios'

8 Comments

Fujitsu and Japanese Uni propose 'endorsement layer' to make the internet trustable

Hope to combat misinformation with graph of observations that prove what you’re reading is reliable

18 Comments

Offbeat

How to watch Jupiter-bound NASA probe's gravity assist flyby from Earth

Lucy in the sky, with good-byes, then

5 Comments

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

Never mind, still plenty of time to that 2023 orbital test

36 Comments

SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine

How can Elon mess up geopolitics today?

104 Comments

Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong

Now let’s see what happens when we get it drunk, say researchers

27 Comments

Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada

And by worse, we mean: The endless casinos

13 Comments

BOFH: The Boss has a new watch – move readiness to DEFCON 2

Let us show you some pointless technology of our own

58 Comments

American techies in China may be breaking the law by showing up to work

Pundit tips next wave of bans will target foreign investment in Chinese tech

3 Comments

Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket

This is not why this mission was dubbed the 'Innovative Satellite Technology Demonstration'

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Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler [Mon Oct 17 2022]

{* Daily Headlines *}

Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler

Off-Prem

Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants

Microsoft extends deadline for partners to improve their clients' security with unauthorised AD tweaks

2022 Cloud Security Report

Automate Network Management for the Fortinet Security Fabric

On-Prem

Nvidia admits mistake, 'unlaunches' 12GB RTX 4080

Qualcomm: Arm lawsuit motivated by greed, 'payback' for opposing Nvidia takeover

Broker-dealers can stop burning records to CD, but they don’t have to, says SEC

Bitcoin energy consumption a feature, not a bug, says crypto-miner

Junk cellphones on Earth would stack higher than the International Space Station

NIST thinks US public should weigh in on CHIPS Act programs

The Metaverse is the internet no one wants

Senior engineer reported to management for failing to fix a stapler

Securing the Application Journey

Post-Covid-19: Digital Transformation and OT Cyber Security in Asia

Security

Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research

Infosec still (mostly) a boys club

'Baby Al Capone' to pay $22m to SIM-swap crypto-heist victim

FYI: Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption relies on insecure block cipher

Store credit card numbers in a debug log, lose millions of accounts. Cost? $1.9m

LockBit 3.0 malware forced NHS tech supplier to shut down hosted sites

India set to extend deadline for absurd infosec reporting requirements

Cyberthreats Racing Ahead of Your Defenses?

Software

Weird robot breaks down in middle of House of Lords hearing on AI art

Would you pay $10 to create an AI chatbot to talk again to a dead loved one?

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Linux kernel 6.1 will contain fixes, features. Useful Rust modules? Not yet

Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop

SAP's German-speaking heartlands still struggling with ERP vendor's cloud vision

Fujitsu and Japanese Uni propose 'endorsement layer' to make the internet trustable

Offbeat

How to watch Jupiter-bound NASA probe's gravity assist flyby from Earth

Scottish space upstart's rocket crashes into the drink

SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine

Boffins grow human brain cells to play Pong

Aerobot designed for hell-world Venus first braves something worse: Nevada

BOFH: The Boss has a new watch – move readiness to DEFCON 2

American techies in China may be breaking the law by showing up to work

Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket

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